[ It would be both easier and phenomenally more dangerous if Charles could just read his mind but-- perhaps even if he were a Legilimens, all he'd see would be fabrications of innocuous thoughts, constructed in his mind like an illusionist might in the physical world.
So. ]
Yet to be determined.
[ He looks away for a bit. Takes another drink. Looks back. ]
There are four houses at the school where I teach. Seven years. There are currently between eight and fifteen students in each year, in each house. Around three hundred students on a campus that's stood for hundreds of years, built to board a thousand or more children and staff. I was made head of house when I was twenty-one because I was, and currently remain, the only alumni of that house employed.
[ Decimated. ]
That boy - Harry - is the product of what he says is the end. The true end. Whatever dark magic or upsetting items come through the jumps for him, I want it gone, and I don't want anyone else aboard trying to make it their bloody business.
no subject
So. ]
Yet to be determined.
[ He looks away for a bit. Takes another drink. Looks back. ]
There are four houses at the school where I teach. Seven years. There are currently between eight and fifteen students in each year, in each house. Around three hundred students on a campus that's stood for hundreds of years, built to board a thousand or more children and staff. I was made head of house when I was twenty-one because I was, and currently remain, the only alumni of that house employed.
[ Decimated. ]
That boy - Harry - is the product of what he says is the end. The true end. Whatever dark magic or upsetting items come through the jumps for him, I want it gone, and I don't want anyone else aboard trying to make it their bloody business.